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Pareto models, top incomes, and recent trends in UK income inequality
Jenkins, Stephen - 2016 - Revised version: 1 August 2016
I determine UK income inequality levels and trends by combining inequality estimates from tax return data (for the … enhance comparability. For top income recipients, I estimate inequality and mean income by fitting Pareto models to the tax … with a threshold set at the 99th or 95th percentile (depending on year). Conclusions about aggregate UK inequality trends …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011533854
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Pareto Models, Top Incomes, and Recent Trends in UK Income Inequality
Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2016
I determine UK income inequality levels and trends by combining inequality estimates from tax return data (for the … enhance comparability. For top income recipients, I estimate inequality and mean income by fitting Pareto models to the tax … with a threshold set at the 99th or 95th percentile (depending on year). Conclusions about aggregate UK inequality trends …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012985277
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What has been happening to UK income inequality since the mid-1990s? : answers from reconciled and combined household survey and tax return data
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Hérault, Nicolas; Jenkins, Stephen - 2016
Estimates of UK income inequality trends differ substantially according to whether estimates are based on household … top incomes in the latter, and provide improved estimates of UK inequality trends since the mid-1990s. We show there was a … marked increase in income inequality in the early 2000s that survey-based estimates do not reveal, and our conclusions are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011434172
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What has been happening to UK income inequality since the mid-1990s? : answers from reconciled and combined household survey and tax return data
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Hérault, Nicolas; Jenkins, Stephen - 2016
Estimates of UK income inequality trends differ substantially according to whether estimates are based on household … top incomes in the latter, and provide improved estimates of UK inequality trends since the mid-1990s. We show there was a … marked increase in income inequality in the early 2000s that survey-based estimates do not reveal, and our conclusions are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452217
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What has been happening to UK income inequality since the mid-1990s? Answers from reconciled and combined household survey and tax return data
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Hérault, Nicolas; Jenkins, … - 2016
Estimates of UK income inequality trends differ substantially according to whether estimates are based on household … top incomes in the latter, and provide improved estimates of UK inequality trends since the mid-1990s. We show there was a … marked increase in income inequality in the early 2000s that survey-based estimates do not reveal, and our conclusions are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011690327
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What accounts for the rising share of women in the top 1 %?
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Hérault, Nicolas; Jenkins, Stephen - 2020
The share of women in the top 1% of the UK's income distribution has been growing over the last two decades (as in several other countries). Our first contribution is to account for this secular change using regressions of the probability of being in the top 1%, fitted separately for men and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012237945
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What accounts for the rising share of women in the top 1 %?
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Hérault, Nicolas; Jenkins, Stephen - 2020
The share of women in the top 1% of the UK's income distribution has been growing over the last two decades (as in several other countries). Our first contribution is to account for this secular change using regressions of the probability of being in the top 1%, fitted separately for men and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012229126
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Survey under-coverage of top incomes and estimation of inequality : what is the role of the UK’s SPI adjustment?
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Hérault, Nicolas; Jenkins, Stephen - 2017
how it affects estimates of overall income inequality. More generally, we assess whether the SPI adjustment is fit for …Survey under-coverage of top incomes leads to bias in survey-based estimates of overall income inequality. Using income …'s pioneering "SPI adjustment" method that implements this idea. Since 1992, the principal income distribution series (reported …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011691130
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Survey under-coverage of top incomes and estimation of inequality : what is the role of the UK's SPI adjustment?
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Hérault, Nicolas; Jenkins, Stephen - 2017
how it affects estimates of overall income inequality. More generally, we assess whether the SPI adjustment is fit for …Survey under-coverage of top incomes leads to bias in survey-based estimates of overall income inequality. Using income …'s pioneering 'SPI adjustment' method that implements this idea. Since 1992, the principal income distribution series (reported …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011703644
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Looking for the Missing Rich : Tracing the Top Tail of the Wealth Distribution
Bach, Stefan - 2018
We analyze the top tail of the wealth distribution in Germany, France, and Spain based on the first and second wave of the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS). Since top wealth is likely to be underrepresented in household surveys, we integrate big fortunes from rich lists, estimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012928875